December 2025 - Podfeet Podcasts

NC #1075 Record Your Own Review, Sandy’s Smart Outlets, Everything Tech is Broken, Andy Dolph on Zoom Webinars for Remote Events

December 14, 2025
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 14, 2025, and this is show number 1075. Before we get started, I wanted to let everyone know that there will be NO LIVE SHOW for the […]

Smart Outlets — by Sandy Foster

I don’t have a home that’s as “smart” as many these days. I don’t, for instance, have smart door locks or window shades. I certainly don’t have any fancy lighting systems. However, I do have three smart outlets from Meross. I’ve used a couple of different brands in the past, but right now my outlets […]

CCATP #825 — Andy Dolph on Remote Production of Events Using Zoom Webinar

December 14, 2025
by podfeet

There are some people who are part of the fabric of the NosillaCast, piping up from time to time over many years to provide valuable insight to the show when a topic tickles them. One of these people is Andy Dolph, who’s been sending in content and chatting with me in the background since 2012. […]

Apple TV screen showing a giant 2 inch border of red around it indicating that the screen is being viewed by Apple support. i am very curious what someone would hear on VoiceOver for the same thing.

Everything Tech is Broken

When last we left our heroes, Steve and I had just finished having our house recarpeted. I walked you through the agony just as therapy for me, and then gave you the tech angles to taking a house apart and putting it back together. By the end of the day Saturday, the house was mostly […]

Screenshot of a Logic Pro X session with dialogue and room-noise tracks laid out on the timeline, and a “Noise Gate” plug-in window open in Ducker mode, showing threshold, attack, release and band-pass settings used to reduce background noise between speech phrases.

Producing an Audiobook — by Eddie Tonkoi

Intro Producing an audiobook to be at a professional level is a big undertaking. It involves hours of recording, gigabytes of data, and exacting specifications. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding these and iterating on my process as I went through the full pipeline as narrator, sound engineer, producer, and publisher for my wife, […]

NC #1074 Stream Deck to Sleep Mac, Recarpeting Tech Angles, Security Bits

December 7, 2025
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 7, 2025, and this is show number 1074. mp3 download Articles New Carpet is Like Moving … but Not Stream Deck Button to Put Your Mac to […]

All of the furniture, glassware, and china from the dining room piled into the existing furniture of the living room. Demonstrates the level of chaos.

New Carpet is Like Moving … but Not

We just had our entire house recarpeted this week, and holy cow was that a lot of work. It’s like moving … but not. While it is tempting to give you all the details of things like putting two bookcases’ worth of books and photo albums into our bathtub, instead, I’m going to talk about […]

Security Bits — 6 December 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A good example of why Bart has been going on and on about secret management in recent conversations with Allison: Massive GitLab scan finds 17,000+ valid secrets in public repositories — cyberinsider.com/… A nice […]

ZZZ Button for Stream Deck made by ChatGPT

Stream Deck Button to Put Your Mac to Sleep

Do you ever do some repeated operation on your Mac that’s not hard but you find it annoying? If you can’t think of one, I’ll go first. The Problem to be Solved When I’m done working on my Mac at my desk, I like to put my laptop to sleep to save energy. I use […]